| From: | Patric 'Procrastination' Rogers <PROGERS@******.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | shadowtk publishing |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Apr 1993 08:57:00 EDT |
edit the logs to clean up accidental spelling and formatting. assume that
punctuation and some spelling will be on purpose. take out anyone you want
to.
if it's published on a pay-per-word basis then don't worry about the money,
but DO list each author who has a character presented (or list it as "THE GANG
ON THE LIST" and provide the publisher with a complete list of said authors).
this allows for authorship, and gets everyone published.
if it's published on a royalties basis, then you need to "acquire" the rights
to use that character (which should be done anyway, but at a certain point it
becomes irrelevant (example pay-per-word)). some ways of doing this include
1) asking permission to use for no fee, 2) offering a flat fee to purchase
the rights, 3) offering a piece of the purse.
on this forum i believe that the "public-domain" policy is correct. by all
means, electronic mail is "public-domain" no matter how private you intend
it to be. someone out there may have a better understanding of the current
laws governing privacy of electronic mail, but the last time i checked the
level of protection (legal or otherwise) was so small as to be ignored.
imho, honesty is the best policy. ask permission to use a character or
storyline and make arrangements as necessary (even if it means losing the
story). admittedly real life doesn't work that way, but let's prove that
we are better than "they" are.
patric
progers@******.bitnet
p.s.: for what it's worth, i grant the right to use any and all of my characters
presented on shadowtalk.
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